Sichuan Middle Road, Shanghai｜A Century of History Interwoven with Everyday Life

🏙️ When you visit the Bund, don’t just squeeze into East Zhongshan Road anymore!
This underrated second facade of the Bund hides 12 historic buildings
Free to visit and perfect for vintage-style photoshoots📸
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🏛️ A must-see for architecture lovers❗The time code of century-old Western-style houses
As one of Shanghai’s 64 “roads that will never be widened,” Sichuan Middle Road stretches 1,270 meters, connecting 13 intersecting alleys, with every brick telling a story of history.
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📍Chuangye Building (No. 33 Sichuan Middle Road): An Art Deco masterpiece built in 1931 by industrialist Liu Hongsheng, featuring vertical lines intertwined with yellow-brown glazed bricks, and a corner tower that looks like it stepped out of a movie.
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📍West Gate of Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund (No. 88 Sichuan Middle Road): Formerly the Shanghai General Club built in 1910, it still retains Renaissance-style columns and the Far East’s first bar counter. In the 1990s, Shanghai’s first KFC was born here!
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📍Former Site of Bunneman & Co. (No. 133 Sichuan Middle Road): A neoclassical building with bush-hammered stone exterior walls and triangular pediment lion carvings, now transformed into an art space regularly hosting avant-garde exhibitions.
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📍Yuanfang Apartments (Lane 126, Sichuan Middle Road): A Queen Anne-style brick and wood structure, with exposed red bricks and carved gables telling the story of refined life in 1911.
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📸 Photo Tips:
The Shamei Building (No. 190 Beijing East Road) is under renovation and may become the next “Wukang Building” level internet-famous landmark, so you can scout it out early!
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📌 Sichuan Middle Road is Shanghai’s “time capsule,” blending the bustling backdrop of the Bund with the warmth of everyday life. Put on comfortable shoes, bring your camera, and come experience the dialogue between history and modernity here!